Apollo 20 Synopsis

a reply to: MuonToGluon
Right it is located in the sci.fi category. The strange thing is that the scifi provides Hq pictures and the real mission provides blurry videos.

originally posted by: agena
a reply to: MuonToGluon
Right it is located in the sci.fi category. The strange thing is that the scifi provides Hq pictures and the real mission provides blurry videos.

Real Apollo missions provided high-rez photography of the Moon from orbit (Mapping cameras and Panoramic cameras) as well as high-rez photos from the surface of the Moon. (Video capabilities in those days was understandably blurry)

In fact, it was one of those high-rez Apollo Panoramic camera images that I and ArMap used to debunk the "spaceship" lying on the Moon: AS15-P-9625

A crop from that image:


The Panoramic cameras had the ground resolution of about 1m.

a reply to: MuonToGluon
Exactly.

Besides which, the Saturn V rocket originally intended for for the canceled Apollo 20 mission was eventually used to launch Skylab on May 14, 1973. There was no other Saturn V rocket available: they are not the sort of thing one just has hanging around as a spare.

The Apollo 20 mission never happened. Neither did 18 or 19.